Indian Grandmaster Gukesh Creates Historical past, Turns into Youngest World Chess Champion
India’s very personal D Gukesh outplayed China’s Ding Liren within the 14th spherical to win the World Chess Championship 2024 title in Singapore on Thursday. Gukesh managed to seal the requisite 7.5 factors towards 6.5 of Liren after securing victory within the final classical time management sport of the 14-game match that seemed like a draw. On the again of this feat, the 18-year-old Gukesh turned the youngest world chess champion, surpassing the earlier report of Garry Kasparov.
Gukesh began the championship on the again foot as he sustained a loss within the opening spherical however then the Indian grandmaster made a superb comeback to stage the ultimate within the third spherical. Earlier, Gukesh made it to the World Championship after profitable the Candidates match earlier this yr.
The emotional second that 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju turned the 18th world chess champion pic.twitter.com/jRIZrYeyCF
— Chess.com (chesscom) December 12, 2024
“It is the most effective day of my life,” Gukesh mentioned after the win. The younger chess participant has been within the dream type of his profession as earlier he guided India to a historic gold within the Chess Olympiad earlier this yr.
— Chess.com (chesscom) December 12, 2024
CONGRATULATIONS TO GUKESH, THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION
The 18-year-old Indian star has defeated the reigning champion, Ding Liren, to change into the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion. Wow! pic.twitter.com/j0BaraUK4j
— Chess.com (chesscom) December 12, 2024
Checklist Of Youngest World Chess Champions
D Gukesh – 18 years 8 months 14 day – December 12, 2024
Garry Kasparov – 22 years 6 months 27 days – November 9, 1985
Magnus Carlsen – 22 years 11 months 24 days – November 23, 2013
Mikhail Tal – 23 years 5 months 28 days – Might 7, 1960
Anatoly Karpov – 23 years 10 months 11 days – April 3, 1975
Vladimir Kramnik – 25 years 4 months 10 days – November 4, 2000
Emanuel Lasker – 25 years 5 months 2 days – Might 26, 1894
